True fairy tales. Cinema and traditions of folklore

For the first time, the book at the theoretical level summarizes the huge and truly unique experience of domestic cinema in the development of traditions of folk culture, the main forms and principles of the interaction of cinema with the world of folklore were identified and analyzed. Theoretical conclusions and analytical assessments of the book are based on the analysis of the work of various masters from Dovzhenko and Pyryev to Shukshin and Ovcharov.
The pathos of the book is in the consistent and reasoned protection of the traditions of folk culture, their special significance for such mass, democratic art, which is by nature cinema. The author seeks to show that the greatest creative successes of domestic cinema in terms of mass audience success came exactly where the authors managed to rely on the tradition of folklore, to use its energy and experience.
The book includes key information on the history and theory of folklore, summarizes the experience of related art history disciplines and folklores that have long studied the sphere of interaction between professional arts with the world of folk culture.
2nd augmented edition